I didn’t move to that many school’s

I think Mia don’t like move and she’s bored.   

Mia recalls how “My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if it’s just in your head.” Why do you think the mom believes this?

I think her mom believes pictures are important 

Mia’s mom says to the school principal that they just moved here from China, and later explains that she did so hoping the principal would cut Mia some slack. Why isn’t Mia happy about that1? Would you have been2?

1 Mia wasn’t happy about that because her mom lied to the principal 
2 I had 

• One of the customers at the motel doesn’t want to listen to Mia, because she’s a kid. Has that ever happened to you before, where an adult didn’t want to listen to you or believe you, because you were a kid?

No but my sister doesn’t believe me because I am bigger.


• Mia walks into her classroom for the first time and sees no one who looks like her. What do you think that felt like?

• Throughout the story, Mia comes up with a number of creative ideas to improve business at the motel. Customer feedback cards, putting out flyers for local establishments, collecting addresses, tip jars, and so on. Have you ever had to come up with a creative idea in your own life? Explain.

I had once’s when I am small I want money so I made a cook sale for my sister my mom and dad 









 

Chapter 3

Mia recalls how “My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if it’s just in your head.” Why do you think the mom believes this?

Before Mia arrives at Dale Elementary School, she has gone to four different schools for five different grades. Have you ever had to move schools? What was it like? What must it have been life for Mia to move so much. 

A: I have never moved this many times. And I think the mom believes this because she thinks that all the memories in your lifetime should be remembered.

Chapter 4

Mia’s mom says to the school principal that they just moved here from China, and later explains that she did so hoping the principal would cut Mia some slack. Why isn’t Mia happy about that? Would you have been?

A:I would not have been happy with that. I think Mia wasn’t happy about that because she didn’t believe lying was necessary.

Chapter 5

One of the customers at the motel doesn’t want to listen to Mia, because she’s a kid. Has that ever happened to you before, where an adult didn’t want to listen to you or believe you, because you were a kid?

No that has never happened to me (Gladly)

Chapter 8

Mia walks into her classroom for the first time and sees no one who looks like her. What do you think that felt like?

Throughout the story, Mia comes up with a number of creative ideas to improve business at the motel. Customer feedback cards, putting out flyers for local establishments, collecting addresses, tip jars, and so on. Have you ever had to come up with a creative idea in your own life? Explain.

Yes I have actually had to find a way to create a creative idea! It was to hold my moms phone and and find a way to make it work.

                            

 I think Mia recalls “ My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if it’s just in your head.” Because she wants to make things special and remember what she did.

 

I will feel very nervous and sad because I have a friend in my old school.

Chapter 3 

• Mia recalls how “My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if it’s just in your head.” Why do you think the mom believes this? 

• Before Mia arrives at Dale Elementary School, she has gone to four different schools for five different grades. Have you ever had to move schools? What was it like? What must it have been life for Mia to move so much? 

Chapter 4 

• Mia’s mom says to the school principal that they just moved here from China, and later explains that she did so hoping the principal would cut Mia some slack. Why isn’t Mia happy about that? Would you have been? 

Chapter 5 

• One   she’s a kid. Has that ever happened to you before, where an adult didn’t want to listen to you or believe you, because you were a kid? 

Chapter 8 

• Mia walks into her classroom for the first time and sees no one who looks like her. What do you think that felt like? 

 

 

Answer: 

The mom believe in photos because she likes to have a wild imagination.Plus she’s a engineer,therefore Mia’s mom likes to take photos. Also, Mia recalled when her mother said that photos help Remember important moments in life.

Mia recalls how “My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if it’s just in your head.” Why do you think the mom believes this?

I think that the mom believes this because it could help you remember good moments in time, even when life is rough. Also, you can be happy when you see the pretend photo in your head later in life.

Before Mia arrives at Dale Elementary School, she has gone to four different schools for five different grades. Have you ever had to move schools? What was it like? What must it have been life for Mia to move so much?

I think it must be very easy and maybe a bit sad for Mia since she moves so much, because since she moves a lot, then she must move all the time, and if she moves all the time, then she probably doesn’t stay in one lace for too long, so its not that hard to leave. But, if she moved the first time ,that must have been super sad.

Mia’s mom says to the school principal that they just moved here from China, and later explains that she did so hoping the principal would cut Mia some slack. Why isn’t Mia happy about that? Would you have been?

I think Mia isn’t happy about that because she wants to give the bullies a lesson to learn, because if the principle knows that Mia is a foreigner, then they won’t dare to bother her. But if the principle doesn’t know, then the bullies will probably bother her, and she could tell on them, and they could learn there lesson about not bullying kids.

She take pictures because talking pictures can lets you remember the happy times when you look back to it.

Kylene in China 

She take pictures is because she believe that pictures can let you remember the time what the picture reminds you.

Ammy in China 

I think Mia’s mom believes this because when you are having hard times you can look back on the good times and regain

 happiness.

       Throughout the story, Mia comes up with a number of creative ideas to improve business at the motel. Customer feedback cards, putting out flyers for local establishments, collecting addresses, tip jars, and so on. Have you ever had to come up with a creative idea in your own life? Explain.

The time when I was creative was when I was making marble run,

paper airplane challenge, making LEGOs, and making games while playing with my friends.

Throughout the story, Mia comes up with a number of creative ideas to improve business at the motel. Customer feedback cards, putting out flyers for local establishments, collecting addresses, tip jars, and so on. Have you ever had to come up with a creative idea in your own life? Explain.

I have had to come up with a creative idea when I had and assignment due, it was about my culture, and it had to be engaging and creative, and it was kinda hard, but I still thought up an idea that was creative. 

Chapter 3 

• Mia recalls how “My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if it just in your head”

I think it would have been difficult...imagine you just moved and you just made a new friend and you have to move ...again!

I have moved from schools and it was hard I had to leave my entire family behind and all of my friends

 I think Mia recalls “ My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if it’s just in your head.” Because she wants to make things special and remember what happy things she did.

I’ve moved school when I moved to China. I felt so new, exciting,and nervous so maybe Mia also felt like me and feel so exited and nervous. Also I think Mia will be more harder because she had friends but she left them and when she makes a new friend she moves again because she moved at least once.h

One of the customers at the motel doesn’t want to listen to Mia, because she’s a kid. Has that ever happened to you before, where an adult didn’t want to listen to you or believe you, because you were a kid?

An adult never didn’t believe me but if they didn’t I’ll be so mad.

I think she didn’t like it because she already has been in America for like two years but I think Mia’s mom is saying she just moved to America because she wanted to think that is why she is not speaking native English and the principal will not think think they are poor. I think I will like my mom to say that they lived there for 2 years because you will maybe be in trouble for lies.

I think she will feel special because she is the only Asian. Or maybe she will feel surprised because she thought there was going to be a Asian but not.

We could put sticky notes at each table at a restaurant and write down stars or wish about the staffs. Then they could be working on it to a other costumer. Then the staffs will be more helpful.

I would not have been happy about that because I would hate for my mom to lie and I would want to prove that I could do good at the new school myself.

Chapter 3 

• Mia recalls how “My mom says it’s important to take pictures of the nice moments in life, even if iF it is just in your head             
Answer: 

The mom believe in photos because she likes to have a wild imagination.Plus she’s a engineer,therefore Mia’s mom likes to take photos. Also, Mia recalled when her mother said that photos help Remember important moments in life.

      

I have had that experience when I told an adult which direction to go but instead of listening to me they asked to see an adult which pointed them in the same direction...ugh.

I think that she felt strange but the feeling was not new to her 

Because she thinks she could do it and maybe she is thinking her mom thinks she’s bad at English. I will also not be happy because I don’t want my mom to lie.

I think Mia’s mom wants to record her family’s happy memories ,but can’t afford an actual camera so she pretends to take pictures and stores the memories inside her head.

I have moved schools before.When I moved schools I felt sad because I had to leave my old school and old friends.l also felt excited and nervous because I was meeting new people.

I didn’t experienced that way but I know her feeling because if that happened to me I would be very angry.

 I’ve moved once, it is very hard for me,it must been a hard life for poor Mia to move four different schools for five different grades.

Ammy in China 

I think Mia’s mom believes this because to remember the moment that they were happy.

Before Mia arrives at Dale Elementary School, she has gone to four different schools for five different grades. Have you ever had to move schools? What was it like? What must it have been life for Mia to move so much?

Even I didn’t moved before but I think it was like always changing new environments. I think it was hard for Mia to always changing, because of that I think she does not have a lot of friends.
Kylene in China

              Mia walks into her classroom for the first time and sees no one who looks like her. What do you think that felt like?

I think she felt weird and interesting, because when I first moved to China, I felt this way. Maybe she felt little sad because 

there was no Chinese friends and all were white.

Mia is not happy about it because she feels like her mom thinks that her English is not good enough,I will also do that if I’m Mia.

Ammy in China 

I think that she felt wired because there no Chinese Guy.

Mia’s mom says to the school principal that they just moved here from China, and later explains that she did so hoping the principal would cut Mia some slack. Why isn’t Mia happy about that? Would you have been?

I would’ve been angry if I were Mia because if my parents said that I would think that they meant I wasn’t as smart as the other kids .

 

 

 

• Before Mia arrives at Dale Elementary School, she has gone to four different schools for five different grades. Have you ever had to move schools? What was it like? What must it have been life for Mia to move so much? 

I had have to move schools it was kind of hard to move because my best friends I’m leaving them I think I want Mia felt like in front desk when she left her old school she felt like he probably nervous And she  probably is a bit sad for her other friends and in all those are four different schools. 

     Kailin in China

I think Mia is not happy about that because she wants to give the bullies a lesson 

This has not happened to me,but if it did happen , then I would feel very angry because it is not fair.

I think if I were Mia I would be scared and nervous because other people might think I was an odd one out and bully me.

Throughout the story, Mia comes up with a number of creative ideas to improve business at the motel. Customer feedback cards, putting out flyers for local establishments, collecting addresses, tip jars, and so on. Have you ever had to come up with a creative idea in your own life? Explain.

I have come up with a lot of other creative ideas but the only one I can think of is when I tried to fix a pen using cores from other pens

I think Mia’s mom does it because she wants to make a mental photo book in her mind.

If my parents couldn’t afford camera they would do the same.

Before Mia arrives at Dale Elementary School, she has gone to four different schools for five different grades. Have you ever had to move schools? What was it like? What must it have been life for Mia to move so much?

I have schools once it was really sad I lost a lot of friends.I think that Mia felt upset because she just made friends and then she had to move away from her new friends.

Mia’s mom says to the school principal that they just moved here from China, and later explains that she did so hoping the principal would cut Mia some slack. Why isn’t Mia happy about that? Would you have been?

I think Mia would not like her mom saying things like that she should because she wants to be normal.

I think that I would also not my mom doing that.

 

One of the customers at the motel doesn’t want to listen to Mia, because she’s a kid. Has that ever happened to you before, where an adult didn’t want to listen to you or believe you, because you were a kid?

This situation has not happened to me but I would feel like she was, not being treated equally.

Mia walks into her classroom for the first time and sees no one who looks like her. What do you think that felt like?

I think she thought she was the odd one out.That can be a good thing in some ways, but it can I also not be a good thing.

Throughout the story, Mia comes up with a number of creative ideas to improve business at the motel. Customer feedback cards, putting out flyers for local establishments, collecting addresses, tip jars, and so on. Have you ever had to come up with a creative idea in your own life? Explain.

Come up with a  creative idea the elephant awareness fair. I did it because I’m passionate about elephants and conservation

Mia recalls that“Mom says that it’s important to take a pictures the nice moments of live.”“even it just in your head.” 

 

I think that her mom just want to I remember what happen in the past that is so nice,or want to make her happy because they are having a great time. 

 

  

I would be unhappy because her mom is not telling the truth.Mia is unhappy about that her mom is not telling the truth so she doesn’t feel good.

       Throughout the story, Mia comes up with a number of creative ideas to improve business at the motel. Customer feedback cards, putting out flyers for local establishments, collecting addresses, tip jars, and so on. Have you ever had to come up with a creative idea in your own life? Explain.

The time when I was creative was when I was making marble run,

paper airplane challenge, making LEGOs, and making games while playing with my friends.

I think she was very sad and because she has friend to say goodbye and I know her feelings cause I felt it before.